Chris Plays Black Mountain Rag

Standard tuning (since this was a borrowed fiddle). I was having fun at the Annual Timpner Barn Dance in Pinckneyville, IL when the band asked me to come play a tune with them. They didn't know Black Mountain Rag, but we did fine anyway! Thanks to Amanda for letting me borrow her fiddle! (Chris Talley Armstrong; The Bluegrass Shack - New Athens, IL)

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[emc4okc]

I didn' t know you could play that song in standard E-A-D-G tuning! How on earth did you do it?

[blueiis2]

@emc4okc It just seemed like the thing to do, so I used my ear. The song does sound a little bit different in standard tuning, though. (There are things you can't do unless you retune.)

[CountryNbeer]

HELL YEA!!!! nothin like the fiddle to get my blood pumpin! awesome job!

[emc4okc]

@blueiis2 So you just play it without regard to the finger positions you'd use if it were detuned? The whole de tuning concept is foreign to me (I do read music & play violin in an orchestra) but I'm a beginning fiddle player--my real love. I do know how to play by ear, but just cold playing a song like that by ear and it not be de tuned--you have immense talent. i ordered your DVD and look forward to getting it and the follow-on one.

[emc4okc]

@blueiis2 Chris, so you played the same finger positions as if it had been de tuned or you just play it by ear without regard to where the finger positions would have been on the de tuning--I can read music (thanks to my mother's piano lessons), but the whole de tuning concept escapes me as I too sometimes play by ear. A new (not young by any means) fiddle player is what I am. I play in an orchestra (violin) that helps and I ordered your DVD. You have a great deal of talent!

[emc4okc]

@blueiis2 so you played the same finger positions as if it had been de tuned or you just play it by ear without regard to where the finger positions would have been on the de tuning--I can read music (thanks to my mother's piano lessons), but the whole de tuning concept escapes me as I too sometimes play by ear. A new (not young by any means) fiddle player is what I am. I play in an orchestra (violin) that helps and I ordered your DVD. You have a great deal of talent!

[emc4okc]

@blueiis2 so you played the same finger positions as if it had been de tuned or you just play it by ear without regard to where the finger positions would have been on the de tuning--I can read music (thanks to my mother's piano lessons), but the whole de tuning concept escapes me as I too sometimes play by ear. Alas a new (not young by any means) fiddle player is what I am. I play in an orchestra (violin) that helps and I ordered your DVD. You have a great deal of talent!

[mule4747]

Inspiring! Great job and nice smile.

[snowbird151]

Excellent Job !!!!!!!!

[olehippy13]

that was excellent.....

keep smilin,

olehippy13